Full F1 Seasons, as Boxsets??

[LDN]

My fiancé is more obsessed with F1 than me and has said that when this season finishes; she’d like to watch old seasons, a race each weekend like it’s live.

But I can only find season review DVDs and the like.

Anywhere to get full seasons, no reviews or the like; just the races as they happened???

Looking at the late 90’s and late 2000’s.

[Evolved]

I’d be interested in the early to mid 90’s. Proper cars and proper racing. V12 goodness, manual boxes and holding on for dear life.

[Vocal Minority]

Evolved said:

I’d be interested in the early to mid 90’s. Proper cars and proper racing. V12 goodness, manual boxes and holding on for dear life.

I can't imagine a quicker way to puncture illusions and rip rose tinted glasses off ones face

[WonkeyDonkey]

I'm not sure of a legal way to find them.

Do know of a torrent that has every race since I think the 1970's.

Is over a TB in size though!

[LDN]

A shame! So it looks like season review DVDs are the best we will get

[Nampahc Niloc]

Just out of curiosity. Is this because your fiancée has only just discovered F1 since meeting you, or is she just nostalgic?

Personally I would choose 98-99 to watch those great battles between Schumacher and Häkkinen again.

[Vocal Minority]

I love the mid 90s and the reviews of the mid 90s

I am under no illusion nostalgia powers about 70% of that though!

[Big Nanas]

I'd love to see some decent old season reviews too.

I recall a fe years ago, Sky were showing some old seasons reviews from (I think) mid seventies. They were appalling! Mainly shaky cameras with no broadcast footage at all. Barely any actual racing and I remember never seeing anyone pass the checkered flag. The only saving grace was lots of excellent candid pit footage which was eyebrow raising.

We're pretty spoiled with the quality and comprehensive coverage today.

[LDN]

It’s because she’s discovered F1 through me; she books Silverstone every year. Once this season is done; she suggested watching old seasons as though they were live; I.e: one race each weekend. Great idea I thought; and I didn’t think it would be so hard to get full seasons, as a box set or download or whatever. Was willing to pay good money for them as well.

I may order one of the season review DVDs I’ve seen knocking about; give it a go. Not ideal though.

[DanielSan]

Vocal Minority said:

Evolved said:

I’d be interested in the early to mid 90’s. Proper cars and proper racing. V12 goodness, manual boxes and holding on for dear life.

I can't imagine a quicker way to puncture illusions and rip rose tinted glasses off ones face

This. Be prepared for more boredom than you thought possible as one car disappears into the lead, laps every car up to 3rd and half the field retire through mechanical failures leaving the few left to circle round on their own.

[LDN]

Haha I know here’s some rose tinted specs and I agree. This years season will be remembered as a classic; we’re spoilt at the moment.

[ukaskew]

Gaz. said:

There's no reason why Sky can't offer this, they own the rights to show all races & sessions from 1982 to present day, it'd be a similar amount of programming to the 14 seasons of Grey's Anatomy which is available in boxsets FOC.

Being able to show old races on their channel and releasing a commercial box set (streaming or Bluray etc) are two very different things. I highly doubt being able to do one means they can do the other.

They could easily rattle through every single race they have access to 'as live' in the dead overnight hours on their F1 channel in the space of a few months (or less than a few weeks during the off-season), presumably there is a reason they don't as it would seem like a very easy win in terms of cost per hour of programming. Their old race content is sporadic at best considering how much they have and how many hours they have to fill on that channel.

[Eric Mc]

Big Nanas said:

I'd love to see some decent old season reviews too.

I recall a fe years ago, Sky were showing some old seasons reviews from (I think) mid seventies. They were appalling! Mainly shaky cameras with no broadcast footage at all. Barely any actual racing and I remember never seeing anyone pass the checkered flag. The only saving grace was lots of excellent candid pit footage which was eyebrow raising.

We're pretty spoiled with the quality and comprehensive coverage today.

Reviews of F1 seasons based on TV coverage can only be done if the TV coverage still exists. In many cases it doesn't. In the early days of TV coverage, the event was shown live and not recorded in any way because there was no means of making a recording - videotape didn't exist.

Later video tape did exist but it tended to be reused. After all, that was supposedly the beauty of video tape, it could be re-recorded over for some other programme.

The retention of TV broadcast material pre about 1980 is rather hit and miss. In many case it just doesn't exist.

The old season reviews you are probably recalling from Sky is a series of FILMED (not videoed) records of selected F1 races starting in the 1970 season by a company called Brunswick. This footage has nothing to do with the TV coverage and is very patchy - being very much restricted to where the various film cameramen were positioned for the races they attended in the relevant season. Often the camera work was limited to the pit area - so it's a very incompelete record of each race.

[S0 What]

f1 templo on yt., mostly pre 2000

[entropy]

Possible if you do torrents. There's a link somewhere on Reddit...

[Deesee]

Interestingly Netflix have been commissioned to do a 10 episode coverage of the 2018 season, they are filming as they go along, and have full access to the Drivers, Teams etc..

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.formula...

Not quite box set, but should be able to paint a picture of the season from inside the circus.

[turbomoped]

You get quite a lot of full races from the ITV era on youtube. Quite boring really most of the time although you wouldn't know from the bombastic commentary.

[Nampahc Niloc]

turbomoped said:

You get quite a lot of full races from the ITV era on youtube. Quite boring really most of the time although you wouldn't know from the bombastic commentary.

Maybe that’s what we need to make F1 more interesting: a return to “bombastic commentary”.

Personally I really miss Murray Walker starting every race with “its GO GO Go here at...”

[Eric Mc]

Nampahc Niloc said:

Maybe that’s what we need to make F1 more interesting: a return to “bombastic commentary”.

Personally I really miss Murray Walker starting every race with “its GO GO Go here at...”

He originally rarely ever said that. I used to tape the BBC Grand Prix highlights programme (from 1983 until about 2000) and in most of that time, Murray's normal opening line was "And, they are off" or "A great start by Prost..." etc. He started with the "Go, Go, Go" nonsense when ITV took over the coverage in 1997 and it soon became a rather tiresome cliché.

Also, if you listen to Murray's commentaries in the 1980s, despite Clive James' allegation that he spoke like his trousers were on fire, Murray actually didn't talk that fast and didn't talk all that often. His delivery was fairly high pitched and had a "sharp" tone to it, which gave it an edge over the more laid back styles of his contemporaries such as Peter O'Sullevan (horse racing), Barry Davies (football) or Dan Maskell (cricket).